Russian destroyer Samson
{{Short description|Russian Imperial Navy warship}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Stalin(EM).jpg |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Russian Empire |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Russian Empire|naval}} |Ship name=Samson |Ship namesake= |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Metal Works, Saint Petersburg |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed= |Ship commissioned= |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship fate=Joined the Bolsheviks, November 1917 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country=Soviet Union |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Soviet Union|naval}} |Ship acquired=November 1917 |Ship commissioned= |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship fate=Scrapped, 1953 |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption=(as built) |Ship class={{sclass|Orfey|destroyer}} |Ship displacement=*{{convert|1260|LT|t|lk=on}} |Ship length= {{convert|98|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|9.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship draught={{convert|3|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship propulsion=*2 shafts, steam turbines |Ship power={{cvt|30000|shp|kW|lk=on}} |Ship speed= {{convert|35|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range={{cvt|1250|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|16|kn}} |Ship complement=167 |Ship armament=*4 × single 102mm 60 caliber Pattern 1911
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Samson (Russian: Самсон) was one of eight {{sclass|Orfey|destroyer}}s built for the Russian Imperial Navy during World War I. Completed in 1916, she served with the Baltic Fleet and joined the Bolshevik Red Fleet after the October Revolution of 1918. She was active during the Russian Civil War, taking part in several engagements against British ships during the British campaign in the Baltic. The destroyer was renamed Stalin (Russian: Сталин) in 1922. She was assigned to the Pacific Fleet when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 (Operation Barbarossa) and saw no combat. The ship was scrapped in 1953.
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{{Orfey-class destroyer}}
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Category:Orfey-class destroyers
Category:Destroyers of the Imperial Russian Navy
Category:Ships built in Russia